Quotes
Quotes about War
It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war.
Come in the evening, or come in the morning;
Come when you 're looked for, or come without warning.
Who fears to speak of Ninety-eight?
Who blushes at the name?
When cowards mock the patriot's fate,
Who hangs his head for shame?
To look up and not down,
To look forward and not back,
To look out and not in, and
To lend a hand.
Note 9.The same proverb existed in German:--
So Adam reutte, und Eva span,
Wer war da ein eddelman?
Agricola: Proverbs, No. 254.
Guilty consciences always make people cowards.
This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end.
War loves to seek its victims in the young.
Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.
This is a wise maxim, "to take warning from others of what may be to your own advantage."
We should provide in peace what we need in war.
Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.
Xenophanes said, "I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing."
I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, "Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow."
He made one of Antipater's recommendation a judge; and perceiving afterwards that his hair and beard were coloured, he removed him, saying, "I could not think one that was faithless in his hair could be trusty in his deeds."
Lamachus chid a captain for a fault; and when he had said he would do so no more, "Sir," said he, "in war there is no room for a second miscarriage." Said one to Iphicrates, "What are ye afraid of?" "Of all speeches," said he, "none is so dishonourable for a general as ‘I should not have thought of it.'"
Once when Phocion had delivered an opinion which pleased the people,... he turned to his friend and said, "Have I not unawares spoken some mischievous thing or other?"
Anacharsis said a man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible favours and blessings of Fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
When Hermodotus in his poems described Antigonus as the son of Helios, "My valet-de-chambre," said he, "is not aware of this."
The general himself ought to be such a one as can at the same time see both forward and backward.
In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.
What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
A mighty fortress is our God,
A bulwark never failing;
Our helper He amid the flood
Of mortal ills prevailing.
Corn is the sinews of war.
